TEETH SHATTERED, ICE STAINED WITH BLOOD — BUT IT WAS HIS MOM’S REACTION THAT LEFT Jack Hughes COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS.

Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal in overtime in the United States’ men’s hockey team’s gold medal game against Canada at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, giving the United States its first gold medal in men’s hockey since 1980.

His goal came after he lost some teeth when he was hit in the face by a stick from Canada’s Sam Bennett in the third period. He said the first person to reach him after the injury was none other than his brother and Team USA teammate, Quinn Hughes.

“It’s funny how things work out because the first guy closest to me when I’m laying on the ice is obviously my older brother, and he has the puck, and you can see it, he’s like, he’s looking at me to see what’s going on with my teeth,” Jack Hughes said on TODAY while joining the show alongside his brother Feb. 24.

“And I remember him coming up to me and being like, ‘It’s all good, man. It’s only chips. You’re going to be OK,’” he recalled, drawing laughs from Carson Daly, Hoda Kotb and Craig Melvin.

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